Hi, I’m Weston After providing over 15,000 hours in session and speaking, I recognize that… “You’re much stronger and more empowered than you think you are…” My Story Know Thyself Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is to actually see yourself. You may have taken personality tests, apptitude tests, and maybe you’ve wondered if your neudivergent? But if you were to know anybody, it would seem logical that you’d know everything about yourself. How you think, process, socialize, rationalize may not be nearly as important as getting in touch with your Higher Self. Almost everyone THINKS they know themselves. But you don’t. Have you ever had a close friend tell you something about yourself that you didn’t know? There’s a lot to uncover in getting to know your real self. Click on the above media player or read the full transcript below. (HIT PLAY and LISTEN to True Connections with Weston Jolly podcast) Thank you for joining us for this podcast Episode 077 of True Connections with Weston Jolly Transcription: Know Thyself [00:50.370] – Weston Jolly Hi there. Thank you for joining me for True Connections with Weston Jolly. This is our 77th episode. Today, I want to talk about you. Our topic which is Know Thyself. [01:05.480] – Weston Jolly The biggest treasure you’ve yet undiscovered. [01:09.120] – Weston Jolly Now, you would think with the topic as knowing yourself, that if anyone in the world were to know who you are, it would be you, right? So isn’t it logical that you would know quite a bit about yourself? So if I asked your name, of course, you would give me that. Your height? Sure. What about your weight? Without looking at a scale. Can you tell me what your weight is? [01:36.140] – Weston Jolly Now, again, our whole intention is to have an understanding of who we are, to know ourselves. And we use all kinds of means to do that. When we think of, for example, becoming aware of who we are, sometimes we’ll use maybe something like a personality test. A personality test can tell us different kinds of things. It can tell us maybe that we have that we’re a conscientious person, or maybe that you’re agreeable, maybe neurotic, or open, or extroverted, or introverted. Do you associate with any of these top characteristics of having a big personality? [02:23.910] – Weston Jolly Does anything resonate within you? [02:26.300] – Weston Jolly But why would we need to have a personality test? Because, again, you would know who you are. [02:31.990] – Weston Jolly If we shifted our attention over to an aptitude test, which, of course, is showing us what strengths and weaknesses that we have, wouldn’t it be logical, again, that you would know that you are very good, athletically, and maybe smart as a whip, intellectually, and yet maybe have some other pieces that aren’t necessarily strengths as would be determined or measured by other people? [02:58.440] – Weston Jolly Now, in a work environment, being tested for your aptitude is quite common, right? Where a prospective employer wants to have an understanding of how you work, basically how you process and how you’ll work within their organization. And so they offer aptitude tests such as; numerical reasoning or verbal reasoning or situational judgment, cognitive abilities and spatial awareness and mechanical reasoning and abstract reasoning and verbal reasoning and on and on it goes to find out, again, what your strengths and weaknesses are. But my point is, do you know these things about yourself? Again, we’re just talking about the physical. [03:33.920] – Weston Jolly If we talk about your mind, how your mind processes, would you consider yourself to have a normal mind? That sounds like a leading question, right? [03:45.550] – Weston Jolly But maybe you have a neurodivergent mind. Now, that means that maybe you think differently. Sometimes ithe term neurodivergent we give consideration to other categories such as; autism spectrum disorder, or maybe even other categories such as attention deficit hyper activities for ADHD. And yet that’s not really what I’m asking. But if that’s something that is appropriate to who you are, that’s something to know. [04:15.750] – Weston Jolly As a quick side note, there is someone that shared with me actually a neurodivergent synopsis of who they are. They literally handed out a little a brief of how they think, socialize and process. Now, not many of us have done that. I don’t know if you walked into your job recently and handed them a little document, a little manifest in terms of how you operate. [04:41.700] – Weston Jolly I’m not talking about how much you weigh. I’m talking about how you think or how you get along with other people, what people you like, what energies that you bring to the office and what energies that aren’t necessarily great energies. [04:51.900] – Weston Jolly Are these things that you’re able to see of your own self? Now, we’re still talking about the physical. If we talk about, again, your body type, that should be easy, right? [05:03.290] – Weston Jolly How would you describe your body type? Are you an ectomorph or mesomorph or an endomorph? And of course, these are just very interesting terms for someone that is maybe thinner as an ectomorph to someone maybe that is a little bit thicker in the endomorph category. But again, these body types, just those three categories, should be easy for you to determine where you fit. [05:26.500] – Weston Jolly But then there’s the shape of your body, right? You could be triangular shaped or rectangular-shaped or oval-shaped, hourglass, etc. Do you know that about yourself? Have you given consideration to that? [05:39.310] – Weston Jolly And if I ask a question about your blood type… Do you know your blood type? Are you “A” or a “B” or “B-”? [05:50.790] – Weston Jolly Let’s continue shifting this discussion, of knowing yourself, a little bit towards the spiritual. What if I asked you your birth date? Clearly everyone knows their birth date, but maybe you don’t know what time you were born. And that could make a difference when you were looking at your astrological sign. [06:06.730] – Weston Jolly And so if we looked at different astrological signs, such as Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, etc, we want to give you an opportunity through these categorizations to have an understanding of who you are. [06:21.550] – Weston Jolly This is all about knowing who you are. But if you have used tools such as maybe Astrology to to reflect back to who you are, there’s something else to give consideration to, and that is, are you accepting what is being shared? That’s really big. That’s something we’re going to talk about in a half a moment. [06:39.190] – Weston Jolly As an example, if you are… I’ll use myself –a Gemini. When I first read the about my astrological sign, and I’m talking about when I did this upteen years ago, some pieces of it made sense to me, and the other pieces I felt like it was an over generalization. Now, that was my initial consideration. I wasn’t trying to be prejudiced against the process. I just didn’t necessarily see the depth of things that were being shared. [07:07.570] – Weston Jolly Some of the concepts about my personality or how I process or how I view things made sense. And yet I was curious. And so I shared this, my astrology synopsis about the whole Gemini Kingdom, if you will, with others around me, especially with those close to me to see what they thought. [07:33.170] – Weston Jolly And of course, my children and even my partner confirmed that, “Oh, yeah, these things are really you!” And I was like, “Really? I’m really having a hard time seeing that about myself.” [07:42.740] – Weston Jolly This is really what we want what I want to focus on with you today. And while we’ve been talking about things from body to mind to aptitudes, and how you process, we haven’t talked about how you socialize, blood types, astrological signs, these are all beautiful characteristics of you. [08:01.370] – Weston Jolly You becoming aware of who you are and what you’ve come here to express. Yet there’s so much more. And really, what I want to put our emphasis is on getting to know or maybe even rediscovering. This is why I’m sharing that this is the biggest treasure yet you’ve undiscovered, is getting in touch with your True Self or your Higher Self. And what does this mean? Sometimes that language is thrown about a little bit in terms of what is your Higher Self. So let’s discuss that. Your Higher Self is indeed this soul, that’s you, on the highest plane, coming into this embodiment and participating here. So if we tap into that, your Higher Self, should we say that’s the true essence? [08:39.340] – Weston Jolly That part of you is filled with knowledge, and I’ll use the term perfect knowledge of who you are way beyond your DNA, your family tree, your body type, your blood type, etc. Again, all of these pieces physically are, I like to use the term Hansel and Gretel-like-breadcrumbs, leading you to an understanding of you are. [09:05.150] – Weston Jolly So, to know yourself, is to really become aware of who you are – instead of just trying to give consideration to what you may or may not be. So, you getting to know yourself beyond the physical is intentiona